BLOCKCHAIN

Blockchain is a digital ledger that records information in a way that makes it easy to hack but once recorded the data cannot be changed. It is essentially a digital ledger of dealings that are distributed across the entire network. For the past years, it has been serving as a block that holds the information about the sender and receiver. When the blocks are filled they form a chain commonly known as Blockchain. This makes it so that all blockchains are databases but not all databases are blockchains. Each block in the chain is given an exact item as soon as it is added to the chain. For Blockchain, it is instructed to view as Bitcoin. Bitcoin holds thousands of computers but each computer that holds its blockchain is in a different geographic location. The computers that make up bitcoin's network are called nodes, where nodes collectively adhere to a protocol to communicate and validate new blocks. This allows the participants to verify dealings independently. It is managed autonomously using a network. Some businesses have been testing the technology and conducting it efficiently. In 2019 it was estimated that around 2.9 billion dollars were invested in Blockchain technology which represents an 89 percent increase from the prior year. Individual use of Blockchain technology has also greatly increased since 2016. It has also been argued that Blockchain can foster both prevent of opportunistic behavior and coordination. The use of Blockchain removes the characteristic of infinite reproducibility from a digital asset. In addition, blockchains do not require a trust or direct connections between collaborators.